Wolsey House Primary School

Our Intent, Implementation and Impact statement for Physical Education (P.E.)

Intent

Wolsey House Primary School recognises and values the importance of Physical Education (P.E.) in the lives of all children (including children with SEND and English as an additional language). We believe that ‘a well-balanced, fun, high-quality Physical Education curriculum inspires all pupils to succeed and excel in competitive sport and other physically demanding activities. We provide opportunities for all pupils to become physically confident in a way which supports their health and fitness. Opportunities to compete in sport and other activities build character and help to embed values such as fairness, cooperation and respect.’

We do this through fully adhering to the aims of the national curriculum for physical education to ensure that all children:

• develop competence to excel in a broad range of physical activities
• are physically active for sustained periods of time
• engage in competitive sports and activities
• lead healthy, active lives

It is our intention to build an ambitious curriculum that enables all children to develop knowledge, skills and vocabulary in a broad range of sporting activities, as well as developing values and transferrable life skills such as tolerance, fairness and respect. Our curriculum is planned, evaluated and adapted to be broad and balanced for all children and is underpinned by three pillars of, motor competence, rules strategies and tactics and healthy participation.

Our PE syllabus (following GetSet4PE) is based on an enhanced model of the Early Years Framework and the National Curriculum with a clear progression structure from Reception to Year 6. This progression of skills has been planned in order to build on the skills needed to meet the end of Key Stage objectives in the National Curriculum.

Additionally, an imperative element of the curriculum at Wolsey House shows a need for healthy life styles, a balanced diet, positive growth mind-set and the resilience to persevere. Through enrichment such as after school clubs and intra-school competitions as well as out of school competitions and swimming we aim to raise the profile of PE and expose our children to sports they may never have had the opportunity to engage with. We believe it is vital to expose the children to a variety of sports at a young age if they are going to have a lifelong relationship with sport.

By creating a progressive curriculum that also introduces the children at Wolsey House Primary School to new activities it is our intention that every child leaves Wolsey House with at least one sport that will stay with them for life.

Implementation

The PE curriculum is taught through the use of the GetSet4PE Scheme, which is in-line with the National Curriculum, and is used to aid teaching staff in their subject knowledge and planning of PE. Teachers are able to adjust and change lessons to suit the needs of their classes but the scheme provides a strong basis of what is expected in each year group.

Each class has access to two hours of high-quality physical activity every week. The children are taught once a week by their Class Teacher and once a week by the Sports Coach (If this is timetabled). The Sports Coach lesson allows the Class Teacher time to: observe, assess and reflect on their own teaching.

Each lesson, children are given the opportunity to practise skills in a variety of ways and each lesson builds upon the previous skills, allowing them time to embed it. Different skills are recapped throughout, and across, the years, each time they are being built upon; allowing children to know more and remember more.

All of Key Stage 2 will receive swimming lessons throughout the year with the aim that by the end of Year 6 all children are able to swim a minimum of 25m unassisted. These lessons take place at school via Pools4Schools over a 4-week period (potentially twice a year).

We subscribe to Inspire Together (previously Leicester SSPAN) and this allows the children to compete in football against other schools throughout the year. We run a Boys and Girls team and both have been successful in recent years. Wolsey House Primary School has also built relationships with other local clubs and coaches who provide our children the opportunity to try sports they would never have tried before.

This year, we have bought into Enrich Education and SH Active Sports to enhance our offer of physical education. Enrich Education provides a high-quality outdoor learning resources that allows us to use orienteering across the school and curriculum. SH Active Sports allow us to provide one afternoon a week of enrichment to our children and this again enhances the PE offer at Wolsey House.

As well as the wrap-around care, offered by an outside provider, we offer a wide range of sporting after-school clubs run by teaching staff. These clubs are free and they provide children with access to a wide range of sporting activities. These activities are chosen by pupils through class votes and pupil voice to ensure the clubs are successful and popular.

Impact

Our curriculum aims to improve the wellbeing and fitness of all children at Wolsey House Primary School; not only through the sporting skills taught, but through the underpinning values and disciplines that PE promotes. Through strong links with PSHE we promote the overall well-being and health of each child through teaching about self-discipline and that to be successful you need to take ownership and responsibility of their own health and fitness.

In all classes, the children possess a wide range of sporting abilities and through the use of GetSet4PE underpinning our curriculum and the work of the Sports Coach, teachers are able to adapt their lessons to meet the needs of all learners. There has been a growth in confidence of teaching staff and both children and staff at Wolsey House Primary School are thriving following the introduction of the scheme. Pools4Schools increased our percentage of year 6 children that could swim 25m by 10% last year and this is going to continue in 2025-26.

The after-school clubs have proved to be a great success and the children are enjoying the opportunity to try new sports and learn new skills. The children at Wolsey House Primary School are eager to take part in competitive sport be that against other schools or in school.

Overall, the children at Wolsey House Primary School make good progress in PE as well as enjoying sport and growing into happy, respectful and fair competitors. It is my aim that every child leaves Wolsey House with at least one sport they can have a lifelong relationship with.

 

September 2025